Apr 19 What Silent Book Club is Reading This Month: April 2018

One of the things I look forward to every month is the Columbus, Ohio chapter of Silent Book Club meeting. Everyone brings their own book and reads together quietly for an hour, then we all nerd out about books afterward. If you're in the area, you should come hang out with us!

This month we met at the Karl Road branch of the Columbus Metro Library. We kick off the meeting with a quick round of introductions where everyone says their name and a little about what they're reading. I always take notes and post the full book list the next day.

It's a great way for everyone to learn about books they might like and I've picked up several books I loved based on what people were reading and recommended to the group.

Here's what the group is reading this month:

The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferriss

Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton

Voodoo River by Robert Crais

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps by Andrea Pitzer

A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King

Death's End by Liu Cixin

The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

North and South by John Jakes

All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Armada by Ernest Cline

I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon

Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Artemis by Andy Weir

There are Silent Book Club chapters throughout and US and several around the world, so if you're not in Columbus, OH, check the events on the SBC website to find one near you!